Skeletal Morphology of the Okhotsk People on Sakhalin Island

Abstract

Morphological data of human skeletal remains of the prehistoric Okhotsk culture in Sakhalin were presented. The Okhotsk people in Sakhalin are quite similar to the Okhotsk people in Hokkaido in terms of not only cranial metric and nonmetric data but also limb bone measurements. The Sakhalin Okhotsk people show a close affinity in morphology with peoples in the northern Sakhalin and Amur Basin and differ from the Ainu in Hokkaido and Sakhalin.